Cherry, French Country Kitchen Table

We design and make custom fine furniture that serves a function but is also unique art. Quality craftsmanship and materials satisfy your unique requirements using old world joinery techniques such as mortise and tenon, dovetails, etc. Contact me and we will collaborate about your custom requirements and design and build your new piece of furniture.

Scope of Services include: Fine Furniture design and build; Contracts and Commissions; Reproductions; Restoration and Renovation; Freelance Design and Build.

“Quality” is defined in today’s business vernacular and literature as “conformance to requirements”. We subscribe to this definition.But, we also use the word quality to mean “high grade” and/or “high standards” and/or “high requirements” relative to three critical parameters: Design, materials and workmanship. So, to us quality means the highest of standards in design, materials and workmanship, and conforming to these highest of standards. Then, when present standards are consistently met, we continuously stretch to a higher standard, and do this for the entire life of the business. In other words, for us, when we use the word quality, all of the good stuff is in there.

Design excellence. We would be just another American woodworking shop without excellent design. Woodworkers are people with great pride and almost all set high standards for themselves and want to constantly get better at their craft. We are set apart by our design abilities. We can replicate (well designed) furniture if you would like and do it very well. Our calling is to create unique furniture objects, made of wood, which are both functional and works of art. We will create stand alone objects, or design a set which fits with needs of an overall solution.

Respect for wood. We have a reverence for wood, we really respect it. It is a beautiful material both visually and to work with. Making it into the designed and desired form is a process pleasing to the senses: each species has its unique smell; the flowing grains and rich natural colors move toward their full potential with the progression of each step in the physical process and delight the craftsman’s eyes; sounds of a hand plane removing onion-skin thin slices of wood; the contours and smoothness of a finished product are like caressing a …

Timeless and green. If you want inexpensive furniture, the kind you might get at Target, Wal-Mart or other chain store retailers, then you probably don’t want us. If you want what’s good for our planet, then consider that our respect for wood also makes our product more “green” than these relatively inexpensive alternatives. Cheap stuff will be outgrown in a short period of time – after 5 years of use its cheapness shows and it is many times thrown out and replaced with something perceived to be “better”. Cheap furniture seldom is considered a family heirloom which would be passed through family generations. So, good quality furniture pays in the long term and is good for the planet too because there is not planned obsolescence built into it, it is designed and built to last forever and be timeless.